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One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
By Browne, Arthur
- ISBN
- 9780807012604 9780807012611
- Publisher
- Beacon
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Reviewed on May 1, 2015 | Social Sciences
In 1952, poet Langston Hughes finished a draft of a manuscript titled Battle of Harlem, which was a commissioned biography of Samuel Battle, the first African American officer in the New York Police Department. The manuscript failed to find a publisher, and Battle, a civil rights pioneer, died forgotten in 1966. Browne (I, Koch) retells Battle's fight for integration in New York City during the first...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
